Chapter 177 You're Heading for Disaster

"Ah..." Sadie Roth sobbed in utter distress. What to do? Was she going to meet her end here today?

"Mommy, if you jump, I'll jump too!" Coco tried to cheer Sadie on to make the leap.

"Of course you'd say that, you're a bird, but I'm not!"

Sadie was on the verge of tears.

Outside, the man in black continued to batter against the door-it wouldn't be long before he broke through...

But ahead was the thirteen-story fall, sure to result in injury or worse.

Trapped between a ruthless criminal and the high-rise...

It was a dead end either way!

"Jump! Jump! Jump!" Coco flapped her wings, urging Sadie.

"Forget it, if it's my time to die, then so be it!"

Sadie closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and braced herself to jump. But as the whistling cold wind brushed her ear, she pulled back, clinging to the window and wailing, "I don't want to die, oh please, my baby is still so young, and my money, I haven't even spent it all..."

"Boom!" The door burst open.

your time's up!" The man brandished his knife,

"Ah-"

jump, but her clothes snagged on the window ledge. She was stuck,

world crumbled

man!" Coco launched another attack, pecking

blade sliced through Coco's wing, angling it towards Sadie

wounded, tumbled

closed her eyes in desperation, awaiting the end. But the knife halted a

was ready

blade

crumpled to

her eyes open

against the frame, panting with the ferocity of a wild beast, an unmistakable tension in his eyes as he scanned the room for her in urgency. "You

heart-wrenching. "Why did you take

No building number, floor,

arms open wide in

arms, Sadie didn't account for her clothes catching on the window

the thought of death

this the day she'd meet her

closed the distance and grabbed her hand, pulling her back to

breadth of his

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